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The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille (book in English)
by Scott Eyman
- Type
- Biographies
- Subject
- Director > Cecil B. DeMille
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Publishing Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 616 pages • 26,60 €
6 x 9.25 inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN
- 978-0-7432-8956-6
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Book Presentation:
The authoritative biography of the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille: “if this were a movie, it would get four stars, two thumbs up, and an A” ( The Dallas Morning News ). • Hollywood history: Cecil B. DeMille was among the earliest filmmakers who discovered some of the biggest stars in film, including Gloria Swanson, Claudette Colbert, and later, Charlton Heston. DeMille's greatest successes came with biblical spectacles, notably The Ten Commandments and King of Kings . When he finally won an Academy Award for best picture with The Greatest Show on Earth, he had been making films for forty years. • A fully realized portrait : DeMille has often been reduced to a caricature: a hack who made empty epic spectacles, a right-winger and McCarthy supporter during the blacklist, and a tyrannical director who abused his actors. Eyman instead presents a balanced account of a remarkably rich life. • An authoritative biography : Scott Eyman is the first biographer to have access to DeMille's letters and other personal papers for publication. Eyman settles for nothing less than the real man, as he did in his biographies of John Ford and Louis B. Mayer. The result is a unique history of Hollywood's earliest years and the rediscovery of a major filmmaker.
About the Author:
Scott Eyman has written eleven books, including biographies of Hollywood legends such as John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, Cecil B. DeMille, and Louis B. Mayer. He also collaborated with Robert Wagner on two books. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and he is the literary critic for The Palm Beach Post. He lives with his wife, Lynn, in West Palm Beach.
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The Art of the Hollywood Epic
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Collective
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